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by barik
4913 days ago
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> You still need to join a University for the credit to be worth something. So maybe students will be able to transfer in many credits, kind of like APs. This is in fact exactly what I think people should do. MOOCs are not an either-or proposition. Many people do not know this, but you can take an AP exams without having actually taken the course [1]. If you do well on the AP exam, it will count as college credit. Good scores on all of the relevent AP exams can easily shave off a year, and possibly a little more. I see MOOCs as an avenue for self-study that allows you to obtain most or the majority of your college course credits relatively inexpensively by augmenting what you have learned in the MOOC alongside traditional (and accepted) examination procedures. Then, the University environment can be better utilized for where it's really needed -- for access to research facilities, computational equipment, labs, and other technologies are extremely expensive to obtain as a single individual. In addition, almost every University (though it's not well-advertised) offers credit-by-examination or some variation of it to skip courses. I know of two rare students from Georgia Tech who were able to obtain a 4-year BS in Computer Science in roughly 2-years through this approach. It turns out to be an extraordinary difficult feat to do, since academic performance is both a function of raw knowledge well as experience. [1] http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/about_faq.htm... |
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